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From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Annie is joined by frequent guest, friend and bookstagrammer, Hunter McLendon (@shelfbyshelf ) to chat about books they loved that you might have missed in 2020 since, you know, pandemic. The books mentioned in today’s episode can be purchased from The Bookshelf: Weather by Jenny Offill His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie Writers and Lovers by Lily King Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan The Silent Treatment by Abbie Greaves Sad Janet by Lucie Britsch Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans Kept Animals by Kate Milliken Sisters by Daisy Johnson Cleanness by Garth Greenwell From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram at @bookshelftville, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. This week, Annie is reading Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant and Hunter is reading A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara and Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich. If you liked what you heard on today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on iTunes. Or, if you’re so inclined, support us on Patreon, where you can hear our staff’s weekly New Release Tuesday conversations, read full book reviews in our monthly Shelf Life newsletter, follow along as Hunter and I conquer a classic, and receive free media mail shipping on all your online book orders. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week.

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0:00.0	Welcome to From the Front porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South.
0:08.0	It's a particular kind of pleasure of intimacy, loving a book with someone, Lily King, writers and lovers.
0:33.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.
0:38.0	And this week, I'm joined by Hunter McClendon of Shelf by Shelf Fame.
0:42.0	And we are chatting about books we love that you might have missed since, you know, we're living through a global pandemic.
0:48.0	Hi Hunter.
0:50.0	Hello, let me just say I get so tickled every time you say Shelf by Shelf Fame because it legitimately makes me feel like I'm a real live face.
0:59.0	I feel like you are.
1:00.0	What are you at now?
1:01.0	22,000 followers?
1:02.0	Is that right?
1:03.0	Yeah.
1:04.0	You surpassed the bookshelf, my friend.
1:05.0	I feel like that is worthy of praise and celebration.
1:09.0	You're Taylor Swift.
1:10.0	You're 22.
1:11.0	I literally, that I have literally been singing that I don't even like that song.
1:14.0	And I have been singing it nonstop ever since I hit 22,000.
1:18.0	Oh, I feel like you are very much worthy of the air quotes fame moniker.
1:23.0	So congratulations.
1:24.0	Well, thank you.
1:25.0	Okay.
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